Hammock



(N9 Model.)

J. WOODCOCK.

HAMMooK.

Pateted July 7, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

THOMAS J. IVOODCOCK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HANIIVIOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 563,538, dated July '7,1896.

Application filed December 2l, 1895. Serial No. 572,893. (No model.)

To all whom it weary concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. IVOODCOCK, of Philadelphia,- (Germantowm)in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Hammocks, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates especially to the com- I bination, with a hammock,of a pillow, and to so effect this combination that the pillow may bethrown or swung back over the talos and partially over thesuspension-cords, so as to lengthen the hammock when deemed desirable.

A further object of the invention is to connect a spreader-pocket withthe pillow, adapting the said pocket as the connecting medium betweenthe pillow and the body of the hammock.

A further object of the invention is to so effect the attachment betweenthe body of the hammock and the pillow that the casing for the pillow,the spreader-pocket, the body of the hammock, and the tabs adapted forattachment to the suspension-cords may be all formed from a single pieceof material.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one end of the completed hammock. Fig.2 is a perspective view of one end of a hammock, illustrating the mannerin which the casing for the pillow, the tabs, and the spreader-pocketmay be formed from the same piece of material as the body; and Fig. 3 isa longitudinal vertical section through one end of the completedhammock, illustrating the pillow as thrown or swung back, in dottedlines.

The body A of the hammock may be of any desired material, as likewisethose parts connected therewith. At one or both ends of the body apillow B is hinged thereto, preferably within the lin es of the tabs D,and also preferably a spreader C, contained in a suitable pocket, ismade to intervene the outer side edge of the pillow and the tabs, the

pocket being shown as the hinge connection between the body A of thehammock and the aforesaid pillow B.

The tabs D are attached to the suspensioncords F in any approved manner,and the said suspension-cords are gathered together and attached to aring E or its equivalent. It will be observed that when the hammock isthus constructed the pillow may be carried over upon the tabs and uponthe suspensioncords, thereby materially lengthening the hammock, andthatv the spreader will act in the same capacity whether the pillowbe inthe one or the other position. Furthermore, by reason of the pillowbeing connected with the body of the hammock through the medium of thespreader-pocket, the pillow is rendered much more free than if attacheddirectly to the hammock-body, and will accommodate itself better to anyposition in which the head of the occupant may be placed, and,furthermore, the pillow will lie as smoothly and as effectively on thebody of the hammock as an ordinary pillow would rest upon a springbedsurface, being unattached thereto.

In forming the hammock and pillow from one piece of material, thematerial 10 of vthe bodyis folded inwardly upon itself to form a loop11, adapted as a pillow-casing, and this loop is closed at its outerside edge inside the outer end line of the body by a line of stitching12 or its equivalent. The material is then carried outward beyond theend of the body and inward between the body and the upper stretch of thematerial outside of the line of stitching 12, and this latter looping ofthe material is transversely divided by a line of stitching 13, which ispassed through the return of the material and likewise through the bodyat its end, the line of stitching 12 passing only through the loop 11and not through the body.

By means of the latter line of stitching an end loop 14 isv obtained,and a pocket 15 intermediate the two loops 11 and 14:, the pocket 15being adapted to receive a spreader 16, which may be of wood, metal, orany other desired material.

The pillow is introduced into the casing or loop 1l, and the ends of thelatter are then closed up, and after the spreader is in position in thispocket its ends are closed in any suitable or approved manner. The tabsD are formed by cutting the outer loop 14, as indicated in dotted linesin Fig. 2, the edges 0f the tabs being bound in any Suitable' it isformed folded under and outward and secured together to forni a hingedloop, said loop being divided into two pockets, one for a pillow and theother for a spreader, substantially `as shown and described.

4. A hammock having the end of the material of which it is formeddoubled upon itself to form a loop, from which the tabs are formed, andthen folded upon itself adjacent to said loop to form a hinged loop,said hinged loop being divided to form two pocl ets,one for a pillow andthe other for a spreader, substantially as herein shown and described.

THOMAS J. VOODCOCK.

VVitnesSes:

WM. P. LANDIS, CHAs. L. LocKWooD.

